The team
Im2 runs on contributed time from instructors, clinicians, designers and engineers.
Jerry Cambra
Architect and Founder
Dual certified MBSR instructor, trained at UMass and Brown.
- Architect of the Beginnings curriculum
- Has taught this material himself since 2016
- Founded Im2, and serves as its treasurer
- Came to the method after mindfulness practice took his own irregular heartbeat from thirty percent of the time to under ten in four weeks
Ted Meissner
Curriculum Lead and Lead Instructor
UMass Center for Mindfulness certified MBSR teacher.
- Supervises mindfulness teachers internationally, for the Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches
- Has held master classes for the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation
- Published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, and a peer reviewer for the journal Mindfulness
- Has presented on mindfulness at Apple, UnitedHealth, Optum and UMass Medical School
Program and curriculum
Cecilia Kinzie
Program Development
Gabby Diaz
Program Design and Community Support
Jess Battersby
Program Design and Continuing Support
Michael Nelson
Program Design and Continuing Support
Pam Nicholas-Hoff
Curriculum and Instruction
Production and technology
Diego Leal Togni
Technology Lead
Patrice Séjalon
Content Production
Tamina Braunewell
Voiceover and Guided Practices
Outreach, funding and access
Derry Deringer
Nonprofit Development
Genny Mar
Marketing and Outreach
John Torok
Scholarships and Access
Philippe Séjalon
Marketing and Partnerships
Sydney Carty
Grants and Outreach
Valentina Mercadante
Marketing and Outreach
